 When thirty-year-old Zarbad Khan, who was suffering from an eye disease, went to a public hospital for cure, the doctors refused to help him, saying that an operation was the only cure, but that they could not operate upon his eye because of his high blood pressure.
| Hah! Doctors trained in infidel ways! Ptui! Whadda they know? |
Khan found the solution to his dilemma at a private hospital, where his eye was operated upon.
"Hey, Doc! Will yez operate on my eye?"
"Yeah, sure. Lemme finish lunch, okay?" |
"Okay, but wash your hands first."
"What? That ain't Islamic!" |
However, his suffering was far from over, as his eye did not stop bleeding for days and he eventually lost his eyesight.
| Whoa! Good thing he didn't listen to the infidel-trained docs, huh? He coulda kept his eyesight or something. |
Surrounded by longhaired ‘Mujahidins’, Khan narrates his tragic story while sitting at a ‘court of justice’ set up by the Lashkar-e-Islami. He said, “The government doctors refused to operate upon my eye because of my high blood pressure, and they prescribed a medicine. However, when I felt severe pain in my eye, I went to the nearby Al-Noor Hospital, where doctors, after checking my medical tests, said that I did not have a high blood pressure and that my eye could be operated upon.”
"What's his blood pressure, nurse?"
"I ain't sure, Doc! I dunno how to work this thing!" |
| "You sure it goes around the neck like that?" |
However, after having the operation, KhanÂ’s eye kept bleeding for days and he lost his eyesight.
| Which is the tragedy? He lost his eyesight? Or he's stoopid? |
70 people: He is one of 70 people, who have sued the administration of Al-Noor Hospital, which is a private hospital operating in Bara, in Lashkar’s court for exploiting their ignorance and maltreating them. He said, “The doctors did what they did to us to earn extra money. They should be brought to justice for their wrong deeds.”
| Sounds like An-Noor Hospital & Dry Goods, Inc, is getting a bad reputation. Too bad nobody wants to go to the gummint hospital because they adhere to medical norms, and all the NGOs are run out of town for being infidels. |
According to the applications submitted at LashkarÂ’s court, two doctors working at the Al-Noor Hospital were conducting operations on patients without having any specialisation in the field, creating severe physical, mental, and economic problems for the victims.
"Hey, Doc! Y'wanna try your hand at a laparectomy?"
"I don't even know what that is!"
"There's a coupla grand in it!"
"Well, okay. I'll give it a shot." |
The victims claimed that the doctors did many major operations without even bothering to investigate the real problems. “When my leg was fractured, I went to Al-Noor Hospital for treatment, where they told me that my bone had been broken and that for treatment an iron rod would have to be fixed in my foot,” 24-year-old Ayub Khan told Daily Times. “After having had an operation on my leg, I felt pain for many days. When the pain did not stop, I consulted senior doctors in Peshawar, who told me that two of my leg muscles had been damaged during the operation.”
"Goddamit, nurse! That rod's a foot too short!"
"Sorry, Doc! They sent the wrong size. Can we make do with this?"
"I guess. Take the shade off and unscrew the bulb, though." |
Ayub has filed an appeal in the LashkarÂ’s court. He also looks to Mangal Bagh, the de-facto ruler of the Khyber Agency, for justice. Bagh has raised his own armed force, called Lashkar-e-Islami, and is ruling the Agency. He has set up his own courts in the Agency.
| I was gonna do that, but Mangal beat me to it. I'll have to settle for ruling Cleveland with an iron hand. |
Doctors admonished: According to Bagh, the doctors at Al-Noor Hospital had acted unprofessionally and maltreated the patients.
"Aaaaiiieeee! It hurts! It hurts!"
"Shuddup. Slap him, nurse!" |
“They performed major surgeries without having any expertise,” he said. He claimed that Lashkar’s doctors were investigating the matter, and that if the hospital’s doctors were found guilty, they would be punished.
"Hrarrrr!"
"What the hell are you?"
"I'm a Lashkar doctor!"
"Cheeze. They told us in medical school not to bring rocket launchers into the operating room!"
"Hrarrr! Prob'ly one o' them infidel medical schools!" |
The Al-Noor Hospital administration, however, denied the charges.
“We are human beings and we cannot mistreat other human beings,” said Dr Nusrat, who rejected the allegations levelled at him. Dr Abdul Rauf, the acting director of the health section of the FATA Secretariat, said that he was unaware of the story. He said that he had not received any such complaint. “We could not take any legal action against the hospital, even if we had received any complaints, since the drugs laws does not apply to FATA hospitals,” he added. “We have provided a hospital with specialist surgeons to the residents of Bara Tehsil. They should go there,” the doctor said. |